Obama won.. (Read 1496 times)

Two days after the election, I spoke with somebody I know who is a marital counselor. She states that the day after the election, 5 (five!) couples came in with batterings that occurred as a result of the election.

And that before 11am.

Their vote was worth the same as your and mine...

"If you want to be a bad a$s, then do what a bad a$s does. There's your pep talk for today. Go Run." -- Slo_Hand

People in 20 states have started petitions for their states to secede from the union.

Has this always happened, but pre-social networking we did not hear about this? Is it new?

I know facebook, etc existed in 2008 (and myspace and baby facebook in 2004), but it seems like stuff was different in 2012. And everyone is pissed at someone because of some nasty political something that someone said in facebook. "I had to defriend that person because he/she was being super annoying..."

What the hell is wrong with the country. Secession? Come on.

Facebook is evil.

That is all.

(edit: not quite all. I realize that the secession dealie is kind of a meme. A very harsh version of the funny cat picture that spreads because social networking is what it is. Still. Come on.)

the 8,500 people who had signed the two Pennsylvania petitions, for example, represent a minuscule fraction - about 1/10th of 1 percent - of the state's 8.5 million registered voters.

Also interesting to see a petition in NJ.

I'm not sure that there are any more people with extreme (for lack of a better term) views as in the past, but I think that these people are more vocal and take more advantage of the social media outlets. Maybe.

i heard that if a secession petition garners 25K signatures within one month of its initiation, the sitting president is compelled by law to respond, and furthermore, that texas as of yesterday had 23K signatures.

i have no idea if this is true, but it's what i heard.

i find the sunshine beckons me to open up the gate and dream and dream ~~robbie williams

I'm not sure that there are any more people with extreme (for lack of a better term) views as in the past, but I think that these people are more vocal and take more advantage of the social media outlets. Maybe.

I think the crazies get more reinforced because we allow crazies access in mass media *cough*Glenn Beck *cough*